MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: Ensuring the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) Protections The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) protects individuals performing, or who performed, uniformed service…
Category: Presidential Actions
President Obama has made helping veterans find civilian employment and reintegrate into our nation’s workforce and economy a top priority. In November 2011, the President signed into law the Returning Heroes Tax Credit, which provides businesses that hire unemployed veterans…
CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK, 2012 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION When President Dwight D. Eisenhower first proclaimed Captive Nations Week amidst an escalating Cold War, he affirmed that…
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance…
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Delegation of Certain Functions under Section 570(e) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 Consistent with the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the…
EXECUTIVE ORDER – – – – – – – BLOCKING PROPERTY OF PERSONS THREATENING THE PEACE, SECURITY, OR STABILITY OF BURMA By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of…
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Designation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as a Major Non-NATO Ally Consistent with the authority vested in me as President by section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended…
EXECUTIVE ORDER – – – – – – – ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is…
TO MODIFY DUTY-FREE TREATMENT UNDER THE GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1. Pursuant to sections 501 and 503(a)(1)(B) of…
Presidential Determination No. 2012-10 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on a U.S. Export Import Bank Transaction with Vietnam Pursuant to section 2(b)(2)(D) of the Export Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended, I determine that it…
